Food Adventuring Around NYC
SADLY, ALLEVA DAIRY IS NOW CLOSED.Alleva Dairy is one of the city’s gems. Among the touristy red sauce joints in Little Italy, the authentic Italian shop has been making fresh mozzarella daily since 1892. The large cheeseballs are as clean, fresh, and buttery as anything you can expect to sink your teeth into. Wrapped around …
A decadent Italian meal deserves a proper ending and Via Carota does it right. Their irresistible semifreddo is a light, creamy glassful loaded with sweet chocolate and hazelnut flavors and topped with a mound of whipped cream and one beautiful chocolate-dipped gooseberry. VIA CAROTA 51 Grove Street (between Seventh Avenue South and Bleecker Street), West …
This obscure Italian dish looks just like a burger minus the bun, but it’s so much more than that. The chopped meat mound is just seared on the outside to provide a peppery, crisp layer, but inside the meat is juicy and rare. Almost like a lightly cooked steak tartare. Roasted garlic cloves and a …
I’ve been raving about the perfect wood-fired Neapolitan pies at Kesté since this blog began (in fact, it was my first review back in 2009). Well, I’m pleased to say 5 years later, they’re still turning out perfectly charred pizzas with a crisp, pillowy crust. The Pizza del Re is one of their best, topped …
Bar Primi is a hip, affordable house for great pasta, but don’t ignore their sandwich. In classic Italian-style, house roasted beef is sliced thin and piled high on seeded bun with Italian peppers, melted provolone cheese, and a garden of arugula. It’s a worthy alternative to their excellent pastas. Price: $16 BAR PRIMI 325 Bowery (at …
A luscious plate of chicken liver mousse studded with balsamic-soaked raisins, capers, and walnuts. One of the best plates of offal I’ve ever tasted! Price: $15 CHARLIE BIRD 5 King Street (at Sixth Avenue), Soho (212) 235-7133 charliebirdnyc.com
I bring my sense of food adventure with me on the road, searching for the most authentic, iconic, and delicious dishes of a different region… These Eat This travelogues will be ongoing posts. For instance, I spent a few days in St. Louis recently and only got to taste a fraction of the iconic, local …
My search for the best hot dog in New York continues…. Every year my buddy Jeff Orlick co-organizes an exciting neighborhood event in Jackson Heights, Queens. It’s called Viva la Comida and Jeff brings in some of the best, most eclectic street food from the borough. I always expect to see some Indian, Asian, and …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. I could spend months searching for the best pizza on Staten Island alone. Some people (mostly Staten Islanders) claim the borough is home to the city’s best. I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve only been to a handful of the pizzerias there, but little by …
My search for the best cheesecake in New York continues…. Ferrara is one of those places that I have sort of written off as a tourist trap. It’s located in the heart of Manhattan’s Little Italy (which is not even Italian anymore) and always has a line out the door for their cannolis, gelatos, and …
My search for the best cheesecake in New York continues…. I’ve always preferred a cheesecake that was both creamy and dense but somehow also light and fluffy. I know it’s possible – just check out Eileen’s. But after doing much research on the topic, many people claim that traditional New York cheesecake should be dense …
I bring my sense of food adventure with me on the road, searching for the most authentic, iconic, and delicious dishes of a different region… For such a tiny little state (the tiniest, actually), I was amazed at how many local dishes I found in Rhode Island. There were so many different iconic foods that …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, NICK & TONI’S CAFÉ IS NOW CLOSED. Nick & Toni’s is a little neighborhood Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side. It’s not the place I expected to find serious cocktails. It’s not even a place …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. There’s always been good pizza in Astoria (Rizzo’s, Rose & Joe’s), but until recently it was lacking a legitimate wood-fired oven Neapolitan pizza restaurant. That’s since changed with the addition of three pizzerias serving the real stuff. Unfortunately, this all started happening after I begrudgingly …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City The neighborhood of the South Street Seaport was completely ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. All the thriving small businesses along Front Street took in around seven feet of brackish water. It was a devastating situation and only …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Charlie Bird is a strange, but very cool restaurant. It’s both trendy and refined, loud and intimate, exclusive and welcoming. And it just happens to be one of the highest rated restaurants of last year.
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. I’ve been to some of the most authentically Italian pizzerias in the city. Yet none of them ever rivaled the feeling I had at a tiny restaurant on the Upper East Side. San Matteo Pizza and Espresso Bar is a strange little spot. It doesn’t …
For the fourth year in a row, I present the 100 most exciting dishes I’ve consumed during my food adventures around the five boroughs. Look for another five dishes every few days. I purposefully don’t put out a list of the 10 best restaurants because it would be totally unfair for me to judge. Unlike …
For the fourth year in a row, I present the 100 most exciting dishes I’ve consumed during my food adventures around the five boroughs. Look for another five dishes every few days. The state of bread has changed considerably in New York. Gone are the days that complimentary bread was served at every restaurant and …
For the fourth year in a row, I present the 100 most exciting dishes I’ve consumed during my food adventures around the five boroughs. Look for another five dishes every few days. Whether you slurp them, chew them, or bite them, whether they’re filled with cheese, floating in a soup, or tossed with a sauce, …